11936806

Call Screening Service for Detecting Fraudulent Inbound/Outbound Communications with Subscriber Devices

PublishedMarch 19, 2024
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Technical Abstract

Patent Claims
13 claims

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2. The method of claim 1, determining whether the destination number has additional instances stored in the call history of the mobile device.

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3. The method of claim 2, wherein when a number of the additional instances meets or exceeds the threshold number of instances in the call history of the mobile device, permitting the outbound call to connect and revoking the scam call notification.

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4. The method of claim 1, wherein the determining the destination number is a scam call suspect number is based on one or more call filtering parameters.

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5. The method of claim 4, wherein the one or more call filtering parameters comprise one or more of a calling number, an IP address of the calling device and an IP address of one or more network devices forwarding call requests comprising the calling number.

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9. The apparatus of claim 8, wherein the processor is configured to determine whether the destination number has additional instances stored in the call history of the mobile device.

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10. The apparatus of claim 9, wherein when a number of the additional instances meets or exceeds the threshold number of instances in the call history of the mobile device, the processor permits the outbound call to connect and revoke the scam call notification.

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11. The apparatus of claim 8, wherein the determination that the destination number is a scam call number is based on one or more call filtering parameters.

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12. The apparatus of claim 11, wherein the one or more call filtering parameters comprise one or more of a calling number, an IP address of the calling device and an IP address of one or more network devices forwarding call requests comprising the calling number.

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13. The apparatus of claim 8, wherein the processor is further configured to perform responsive to the scam call notification being forwarded to the mobile device while the outbound call is dialing the destination number, block the outbound call from connecting with the destination number.

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14. The apparatus of claim 8, wherein the processor is further configured to determine the destination number stored in the call history is not assigned to a calling device that previously placed a call to the mobile device.

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17. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 16, wherein when a number of the additional instances meets or exceeds the threshold number of instances in the call history of the mobile device, permitting the outbound call to connect and revoking the scam call notification.

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18. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 15, wherein the determining the destination number is a scam call suspect number is based on one or more call filtering parameters.

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19. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 18, wherein the one or more call filtering parameters comprise one or more of a calling number, an IP address of the calling device and an IP address of one or more network devices forwarding call requests comprising the calling number.

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Publication Date

March 19, 2024

Inventors

Robert Francis Piscopo JR.
Jefferson D. Stalnaker

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